CAD — a user's perspective

✍ Scribed by F.T. Dawson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 558 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4485
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4485(80)90005-6

✦ Synopsis

a user's perspective

CA D is used extensively in plant design today, affecting design, analysis and production of drawings, specifications, and reports. Each application has been developed independently based on self-justification. We are now on the brink of integrating these standa/one applications with the promise of influencing intertash and interdiscipline communications. Although the new venture is formidable, the CA D community is gathering momentum.

Most major corporations have been involved with CAD in engineering developments and applications for many years. Assessing the penetration and breadth of CAD utilization in one's own organization can be a revealing exercise. The commitment and dependence exists. Given this, and on the premise that computer hardware and software technology can or soon will do anything a user wants, one of the most pressing tasks is definition of current and future user needs. This paper attempts such definition at a generic level for the plant design problem.